[78-L] 78-L Max Steiner, "Symphonie Moderne"

[David Lennick]

On 7/10/2012 7:12 PM, JD wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:59:01 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: DAVID BURNHAM<burnhamd at rogers.com>
>> Subject: [78-L] Max Steiner, "Symphonie Moderne"
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>> I was just listening to an RCA recording of Max Steiner's "Symphonie
>> Moderne", played by the Janssen Symphony of Los Angeles conducted by
>> Werner Janssen. ?This record is not too well liked; ?I looked it up in
>> both issues of David Hall's "Record Book" that I have and there's nary a
>> mention, similarly there's no listing for it in WERM either. ?I googled it
>> and found a Gramophone review of the disc from March of 1944 - a scathing
>> review which treats it as little more than musical trash, and doesn't
>> imply a high opinion of American listeners either, (let me adjust my Maple
>> Leaf). ?I will admit that it certainly isn't a masterpiece of classical
>> music but it isn't that bad. ?I found nothing offensive about it. ?But I
>> guess, saying that, I should come out of the closet; ?as much as I enjoy
>> the Symphonies of Mahler, Bruckner and Spohr, I must confess that I also
>> enjoy the Warsaw Concerto and the Cornish Rhapsody.
>>
>> It's 3:58 AM so I guess I'll go to bed now!
>>
>> db
>
> No one ever need be embarrased about liking Warsaw, Cornish or Dream of
> Olwen. It's lovely music and pretty well crafted despite being derivative or
> perhaps poor man's Rachmaninoff.  I can't say the same for Bruckner, the
> worst and most overrated  and incompetent  composer who ever lived.
> (speaking only of the symphonies, I could nevert get past those to ezpress
> an opinion on anything else he may have wrotten).
> JD
>
To hell with Bruckner and he can take Sibelius with him (except for anything 
that came in under 8 minutes, and that includes Finlandia..beyond that, they 
were both jerkoffs and you may quote me).

dl